Ahmad al-Shehi makes ropes and baskets from palm fibers and leaves

Al-Rawi, through councils, gatherings and events, has dealt with the local human tradition from the fathers over the years and so forth, highlighting the narrators who have the ability to tell stories and transfer contents from memory to reality. Throwing light on social issues, heritage, personalities and tribes, especially talking about places and tribes as each of them has its own style. In poems, stories and heroic situations, the narrator is considered a living memory that enlightens those who are confused about something or information, and he is a teacher in the field of narrating information handed down by generations. The Commentator is the target to which the researcher goes to get an impression of the information, apart from the official authorities who go to him on many occasions for the same purpose, but even today from here we go to the narrators. to provide an overview of their lives; To honor them and their humanitarian role, document a brief biography of each of them.

There may be some words for those who do not know the local dialect, especially sea, fishing, farming words, amulets. Stallion leaf, al-Dawa’s jafana, taqwa’s netting, lich and dawabi, and when you hear those voices repeating that all these names are ropes, made of palm fibers, cut them, soften them with water, then separate the cloth and make ropes, and recycle the palm leaves, He is one of the builders of old houses such as baskets, tents and cranes for storing dates. And Arish, because the industry is not going away because of the demand for it and its large presence in various cultural events.

The craft that distinguishes Ahmad bin Mubarak is the production of ropes, he describes the steps of production and demonstrates them at local forums, festivals and fairs.Libraries in Sharjah and high technical colleges Fujairah and Ajman University.

Ahmad bin Mubarak Al-Shehi was born in Ras al-Jibal area in 1959, and he studied Al-Mutawa in 1968, learned to recite and memorize the Qur’an, and then moved to Ghor Faqan in September 1970. Muhammad Juma al-Mansouri and Yaqub Abdullah al-Mansouri and Ali Hamdan al-Mirza and others lived in the eastern region in a group of family-like neighbors, all of whom were chiefs at sea (Nawaqta). Bin Mubarak wasted no opportunity to follow them and learn from them, in 1972 he enrolled in evening studies, but he stopped studying to join the electricity and water sector from 1981 to 1992, and then went back to work. Ministry of Interior until 2019, to retire with the rank of lieutenant, during those years he continued his studies until he finished high school, but he did not stop living at sea and going with men associated with the sea. Despite the work.

The story of his life with the sea started from an early age, when he was fifteen years old, he joined his grandfather and his father because they were involved in diving and fishing trips, and from here he wanted to make natural ropes that he would engage in. Almost all of it, at the same time he continued farming to get melons and pumpkins and potatoes, so he used the genealogical information to benefit and pass it on to others, so he sees himself as an oceanographer. life, mountain environment and agriculture, and he still maintains all the tools to support interpretation and educate others, and he finds the same passion in himself that will increase and never decrease.